The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-10-06

Island. There are fourteen cases under
treatment.
The general land Office is in receipt ot
information that the British syndicate
who is said to have purchased large
tract of land IN Iowa from the McGrego1
Western Railway company,is mercilessily
evicting settlers, title to the land being in
, dispute in the state courts.
Cooper, Hogus & Co.'S four-story fur
: niture house, in Denver, took fire at noon
Flast Monday. The stock is valued at
S10O,OOO; insured for about half The
building is valued at $4,000. About
So, 900 worth of damage was done before
the flames could be controlled.
Michael Butler, recently discharged
from his position as keeper in the in
sane asylum on Wards Island, has pc
toned the supreme court for the release
of number of patients as sane. He de-
clares that of LILO inmates no less than
800 are perfectly sane, and that LOCO
others are entirely harmless lunatics.
The English Kitchen" a cheap lodg-
ing hddse in Detroit, Mich, caught fire
last Saturday morning and ten dodgers
entrapped. Seven Of them were rescued
with but slight injuries. OF the remain
ing three one was burned almost beyond
recognition, another died from suffoca-
ton, and the third, although rescued
alive, cannot recover.
Last Monday in Cincinnati the grip of
a cable car was caught by a loose strand
on the cable and carried some distance,
smashing other cars and finally upsetting
and wounding thirty or forty people,
Lewis Kolb is probably fatally hurt. The
affair occurred at night which added
greatly to the confusion.
Sir Thomas Grattan Esmonde and Ar
thur O'Connor have arrived by the
steamer Arizona from Ireland. They
come to America as representatives of the
Irish parliamentary party to explain the
condition of affairs at home, to thank
American people for their support in the
past, and to ask their continuance.
AZ the election for principal of the
Ihirt;-third ward school, in Pittsburg
Rev. Father McTigher, Roman Catholic
priest, was chosen. The election has
caused considerable discussion in reli-
gio1ls circles, as it is believed to be the
frs. time on record that Catholic priest
has ever been called upon to fill similar
position in the public schools.
Foxbury Hawkins, arrested on the
charge of numbering his mother,
wealthy widow lady, living at Isiip, Long
Island, made confession, Monday. His
mother opposed his proposed marriageto
a servant girl, and, as he alleges, applied
an epithet to. his lady-love which so en-
ragged him that he shot her in the head
and afterwards dragged her body out
into field.
A stage bound from San Angelo to
Ballinger, Texas was halted at II o'clock
one night last week by a single highway
men six miles from Ballinger. He stood
eight passengers in row and went
through their pockets, securing nearly
$4,000 in money and considerable jewelry.
When the stage going in the opposite
direction came along shortly after he
went through its passengers in the same
way.
A st. Paul special says: The sensation
in railroad circles, just at present, is the
Milwaukee's expressed determination to
raise grain rates into Chicago below St.
Paul, and as far as La Crosse. to 1211a
cents, while Minneapolis rates remain at
7115 cents. The excuse for thus ignoring
the interstate commerce law is the water
competition, and the cauae for it is the
belief that under the circumstances such
a violation of the law would be condoned.
General Crooks report of the recent
Ute Indian trouble in Colorado shows
that the trouble was precipitated alto
gether by the whites, and that the In
dams we're not guilty of horse stealing.
and had settled the dispute with horse
traders. Nevertheless warrants were is
and attempts made to serve them, with
out any explanation. They were fred on
without cause, and afterwards, when they |
agreed to go to the reservation, the sher-
if did not keep his agreement, but pre-
ceded them with militia and deputies.
On September 13, Juan Garcia Bar
rera, a rich rancher, while a short dis
tance from his home, situated between
Las Teder;lis and La Gozalina, Texas,
was surrounded by five desperadoes, and
ribbed of 5000. He was then taken
across the river into Mexico and COM
PEELED to write to his fmily, notifying
them that unless they Immediately raised
and paid to an Individual named in the
letter the sum of $4,000 by September
IS he would be shot. Upon receipt of the
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